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With food costs growing every year, many of us can do nothing but buy the same cheap ingredients each week, resulting in us eating the same old meals every day. However, with Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook 200 Budget Meals this will become a thing of the past. This book shows you how to take these inexpensive ingredients and, with a bit of ingenuity and flair, turn them into sumptuous meals for any occasion. From soups and starters to suppers and desserts, there are over 100 recipes for every chef on a shoestring budget in this book, plus more than 100 clever variations and new ideas for delicious dishes. With tastebud-tingling photography and clear step-by-step instructions for every recipe, the only thing you need to worry about is which recipe to cook next!
About the Author
Sunil Vijayakar was born in Bombay, where, while working as a food stylist for the film industry, he founded a successful catering company. He is now based in London and specializes in preparing food for photography. He has written a number of books for Hamlyn including Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook: 200 Curries and Fresh Indian, and contributes to many popular weekly and monthly publications.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this for myself and for someone who wasn't a cook at all. This book has been used again and again by both of us.
Recipes I've tried which have been a resounding success include the beef and aubergine chilli, mixed bean kedgeree (so delicious that even eating it 4 days running I'm not bored with it), sausage and bean casserole (the idea for which I also used to use up roast leftovers to make 4 more meals!), bacon, leek and tomato rice and the mexican pie. I have 6 books from the Hamlyn 200 recipe series and this is the one I've used the most often and gone back and repeated recipes. There aren't 200 pages of recipes. The 200 refers to variations and recipes for suggested accompaniments (as with all of the series) but it is still absolutely worthwhile getting. Suggested variations are significantly different to each other e.g pork and pepper chilli vs beef and aubergine chilli. All recipes are easy to do which is why the person who I gifted this book has done about 5 or 6 of the recipes having never done much cooking in the past. A must-have in these times of rising prices and busy lives!
Recipes I've tried which have been a resounding success include the beef and aubergine chilli, mixed bean kedgeree (so delicious that even eating it 4 days running I'm not bored with it), sausage and bean casserole (the idea for which I also used to use up roast leftovers to make 4 more meals!), bacon, leek and tomato rice and the mexican pie. I have 6 books from the Hamlyn 200 recipe series and this is the one I've used the most often and gone back and repeated recipes. There aren't 200 pages of recipes. The 200 refers to variations and recipes for suggested accompaniments (as with all of the series) but it is still absolutely worthwhile getting. Suggested variations are significantly different to each other e.g pork and pepper chilli vs beef and aubergine chilli. All recipes are easy to do which is why the person who I gifted this book has done about 5 or 6 of the recipes having never done much cooking in the past. A must-have in these times of rising prices and busy lives!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Two hundred tasty budget meals in a handy compact book. Great for both beginners and more experienced cooks. I love the wipe clean cover because I am a messy cook! A brilliant range of cheap recipes from starters & snacks to desserts. The sort of cook book where you already have most of the ingredients in the house. All the recipes I have tried so far have been delicious. Favourites in this house are the Pasta Pie and Rice Noodle with Lemon Chicken.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Hamlyn's "200 Budget Meals" has fast become a favourite in our house. It is beautifully illustrated, with every single picture eliciting a drooly "oooh, must try that" response. As an additional benefit, most of the recipes clock in at less than half an hour, making the book a good, reliable source for quick, last-minute meals. We especially loved the mushroom and leek pies. As a great fan of pies, I used to get frustrated at not being able to achieve the right consistency for the filling. This, however, turned out absolutely perfect (though I did substitute cornflour for plain flour -- it just made more sense). I'm making the pasta with aubergines and pine nuts tonight, and I have high hopes for it.
Update: It was my husband who made the pasta dish in the end. He was a little nervous, having never cooked with aubergines before, but the clear directions helped him create a deliciously moreish plate of pasta. Two thumbs up!
Update: It was my husband who made the pasta dish in the end. He was a little nervous, having never cooked with aubergines before, but the clear directions helped him create a deliciously moreish plate of pasta. Two thumbs up!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Would benefit many university students
I recently had a discussion with some students and discovered that despite claiming to be constantly short of funds, they often lived off takeaways which cannot be an inexpensive... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Claptonian
Definitely well worth the money
I've made several of the recipes from this book & find the instructions very easy to follow. I like how alternatives are given with each recipe so you can alter it slightly. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Kirsty
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